Memorials of Old Derbyshire
Memorials of the Counties of England
General Editor: Rev. P. H. Ditchfield, M.A., F.S.A.
Memorials
of
Old Derbyshire
From a water-colour sketch byMr. Frank E. Beresford.
MEMORIALS
OF
OLD DERBYSHIRE
EDITED BY
Rev. J. CHARLES COX, LL.D., F.S.A.
Author of
“Churches of Derbyshire” (4 vols.),
“Three Centuries of Derbyshire Annals” (2 vols.),
“How to write the History of a Parish,”
“Royal Forests of England,”
“English Church Furniture,” etc., etc.
Editor of “The Reliquary”
With many Illustrations
LONDON
Bemrose and Sons Limited, 4 Snow Hill, E.C.
AND DERBY
1907
[All Rights Reserved]
TO
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
SPENCER COMPTON CAVENDISH,
K.G., F.R.S., D.C.L., LL.D.,
EIGHTH DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE,
CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE,
AND LORD-LIEUTENANT OF DERBYSHIRE,
THESE MEMORIALS ARE,
BY KIND PERMISSION,
INSCRIBED
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PREFACE
It has been a great pleasure to accept the request ofthe General Editor of this Memorial Series to edita volume on my native county of Derby. In proportionto its size and population, more has been writtenand printed on Derbyshire than on any other Englishcounty. But in these days, when, year by year, the nationalstores of information in Chancery Lane are becomingbetter arranged and more fully calendared, when there ismore generous access to muniments in private possession,and when the spirit of critical archæology is becoming moreand more systematised, there is no sign whatever thatthe history of the county is in any way near exhaustion.Nor will that be the case even when the four greatvolumes of the Victoria County History are completed.So abundant are the historical records of Derbyshire,and so rich are the archæological remains, that therewould be no difficulty, I think, in the speedy productionof a companion volume to this of equal interest and ofas much originality, should the General Editor and thepublishers desire such a sequel. I say this as an apologyfor omissions of which I am fully conscious; and, asit is, the publishers have kindly allowed the present[viii]pages to exceed in number those of any other volumeof the series.
There is one sad subject in connection with theproduction of this work—I allude to the death of thatdistinguished antiquary, the late